Pivovar Krakonoš is one of the oldest
breweries
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in the
Czech Republic
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. Founded in 1582 and located in
Trutnov
Trutnov (; german: Trautenau) is a town in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 29,000 inhabitants. The town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument zone.
Administrative parts
Trutnov is ...
town, the annual production of
light
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and
dark beer
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s exceeds 100,000 hectoliters.
In 1974, future Czech president
Václav Havel
Václav Havel (; 5 October 193618 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and former dissident. Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992 and then as ...
worked here, and was inspired to write a theater play, ''Audience'', whose story is situated in the brewery.
See also
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List of oldest companies
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References
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Pivovar Trutnov on the
Czech Wikipedia
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Breweries in the Czech Republic
Companies established in the 16th century
16th-century establishments in Bohemia
Trutnov
1582 establishments in the Habsburg monarchy
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